By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. CENTRAL – Daniel High School is not only in Central but central to Clinton High School’s rare evidences of football frustration and despair. The Red Devils enter every game with high expectations. Few expected Clinton to venture into Dick Singleton Field and win, but its players did …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: Lots of excitement at spring football game
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. One characteristic of the Presbyterian College spring football game was that it got better as it went along. Would that it be true of us all. I was there for most of it. I started out frantically shooting photos of the Clinton Red Devils baseball game. It …
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Furmanology: Meanwhile, in the current century
By MONTE DUTTON Beneath this placid exterior (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. When I was a freshman at Furman, when the Colts were still in Baltimore, the Paladins in Sirrine Stadium and Johnny Carson still on TV, I experienced the rites of passage that most young people face when they no longer have parental supervision. …
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Sing a little football song
By MONTE DUTTON Eels hover above Paris Mountain. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I thought well, gee whiz, why not just start the season? Saturday was the first one in the autumn when it’s not too hot. Except it was March 16. Fluffy clouds slowly crossed the sky, northeast, as if they constituted an armed …
Blue Hose dream the Impossible Dream
Bryanna Brady had the game of her career. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. HIGH POINT, N.C. – Presbyterian College are going to women’s basketball’s Big Dance. They may not dance for long, but the Blue Hose are going to sally forth to the hardwood floor. PC has never won a Big South tournament … until …
Paladins win best (and biggest) of three
(Furman photo) Click here. ASHEVILLE, N.C. – They’re at wit’s end in nearby Cullowhee. Furman eliminated Western Carolina in overtime at the Ingles Southern Conference Men’s Basketball Championships for the second season in a row, 79-76, on Saturday night. Once again, J.P. Pegues was the culprit for the Catamounts and Braveheart for the Paladins. The …
Furman falls in Timmons finale, 82-75
By MONTE DUTTON J.P. Pegues seeks an opening. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Furman has a week to get its groove back after falling to Mercer, 82-75, in the final game of the regular season in front of 2,457 at Timmons Arena on Saturday afternoon. The Paladins don’t have a Southern Conference Tournament game until next …
Pegues is not enough in Cullowhee
J.P. Pegues scored 35 points and surpassed 1,000 career points. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ CULLOWHEE, N.C. – Furman could not win on J.P. Pegues alone. That’s a bit unfair. Pegues scored a career-best 35 points on Wednesday night in Western Carolina’s 85-77 victory over the Paladins, which raised the Catamounts into a fourth-place tie with …
Paladins get their groove back
J.P. Pegues and his teammates were at their best. (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Furman may have exposed its destiny on Sunday afternoon. The Paladins may have previewed a glorious future. Or, maybe not. Oh, Doctor, as Dan Scott likes to say and Red Barber used to. J.P. Pegues was brilliant, and no one was bad, and …
Pegues, Paladins pull one out in Johnson City
J.P. Pegues (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – The air in Freedom Hall was fraught with desperation as Furman fought to end a slump and East Tennessee State sought to keep a Southern Conference men’s basketball streak going. Junior J.P. Pegues scored seven of Furman’s final nine points, including four free throws in the …
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Nightrider's Lament 